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Wytse Kaastra leads Accenture’s Utilities business in Europe and Accenture’s global Energy Retail & Customer Service practice. Wytse has approximately 25 years of experience in the energy and utilities industry, executing projects ranging from strategic assignments to large-scale execution programs for power and gas clients, with a focus on the business as well as on the intersection with IT.

Over the past few years, Wytse has focused on the customer side of energy transition-related services including EV services, energy management, flexibility services and marketing and customer operations.

Prior to joining Accenture, Wytse started his career at ExxonMobil as a business analyst in the supply chain area. Wytse holds a master’s degree in Economics from Wageningen University.

Sanda Tuzlic is part of Accenture Energy Retail group, working as global offering lead for Accenture Connected Energy service. Sanda has almost 15 years of utilities industry experience. She brings innovation and thought leadership to European clients on topics such as Distributed Energy Resources, eMobility, Energy Management, Energy Efficiency and Flexibility Services. 

Marine Cornelis is the executive director and founder of Next Energy Consumer, a policy consultancy focused on the social aspects of the energy and climate transitions at European and international levels. Her work bridges the needs and experience of civil society, scientific communities, businesses and policymakers, in the energy and climate transitions. Her commitment enabled Marine to be appointed one of the first ambassadors of the European Climate Pact. Before Next Energy Consumer, Marine served as the Secretary-General of NEON, the European network of energy dispute resolution services and ombudsmen, in Brussels. Marine is a French national with perfect command of English and Italian. She holds a MA in political sciences (Sciences Po Lille, France) and economics (University of Lille, France). More information about her activities and projects can be found on her website: www.nextenergyconsumer.eu

Chiara dalla Chiesa is the Head of Strategic Marketing at Enel X since December 2019.

She joined Enel in 2010, when she took the role of Head of Market Analysis and Strategies within the Business Development function of Enel Green Power, where she later also become responsible for the Business Development Planning and Commercial Origination activities. In 2015, she was named Head of Corporate Affairs within the Enel CEO Office. She works at Enel X since 2017 as Head of Strategic Analysis and Portfolio Optimization at Enel X. 

Prior to joining Enel, Chiara worked for 5 years in the M&A and private equity divisions at Lehman Brothers and Trilantic Capital Partners, in London.

She graduated with honours in Economics from LUISS University in Rome in 2004.

She is chair of the Working Group Customers and New Services at Eurelectric.

She is the Deputy of the Supervisory Board for the Net Zero Carbon Cities initiative within the World Economic Forum.

Dara was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Electricity Association of Ireland at the end of 2017. Prior to joining EAI, Dara was a Director of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2004 and in that period had responsibility for EPA licensing, Greenhouse Gas and Waste Inventories, Carbon Emission Trading, Circular Economy and the Office of Environmental Enforcement.  Prior to his work with the EPA, Dara worked in the private sector for eight years as an environmental consultant in Boston, USA. He holds a BE from NUIG and a MSc from Northeastern University, Boston.

Zuzana Sadlova works as a Regulatory Specialist at CEZ Group headquarters since 2016, predominantly dealing with EU and Czech regulatory framework on electricity and gas markets. Since 2019, she has been a vice-chair of Eurelectric Retail market design working group. Previously she worked at international energy department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic and Slovak Ministry of Economy. Zuzana studied social sciences at Charles University in Prague and business administration at University of Economics in Prague.

Dimitri Vergne is Team Leader Sustainability and Acting Team Leader Energy at BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation. Dimitri joined BEUC in November 2017 and was initially in charge of sustainable mobility files. He studied Political and administrative studies at the College of Europe in Bruges and Political Science in Lille (FR) and Münster (DE).

BEUC acts as the umbrella group in Brussels for its members and its main task is to represent them at European level and defend the interests of all Europe’s consumers. BEUC investigates EU decisions and developments likely to affect consumers, with a special focus on sustainability and energy.

Alice Kleba – Local Energy Communities Manager, EDP

After completing her undergraduate degree in Management at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics (CLSBE), followed by an international Master in Finance (CLSBE and Lancaster University of Management), Alice worked in Corporate Finance and M&A at PwC and later Millennium BCP Investment Banking between 2012 and 2019, specializing in the energy sector. In 2019 Alice joined EDP Comercial’s Business Development team with a great focus on identifying targets for M&A operations within the New Downstream and new markets in terms of attractiveness, business potential and suitability for EDP Comercial. Since 2021 she is responsible for developing and implementing collective self-consumption services and its go to market strategy in Portugal.

Alain Taccoen is the Chairman of the Eurelectric Retail and Customers Services of Eurelectric. He had been active before in Eurelectric as Chair of the WG Retail Maket Design.

Alain Taccoen is Head of Stakeholders Relations at EDF European Affairs, in charge of coordinating EDF Group participation in think-tanks and some Brussels based associations.

In preceding years, he held several positions, in EDF in charge of Retail Markets Regulation and in RTE as Deputy-Head of the Regulation and Finance Department in charge of all activities regarding financial and economic regulation of the French TSO.

During that period, he convened the ENTSO-E Working Group in charge of establishing the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform.

Alain holds Degrees from Ecole Centrale de Paris, France, a PhD in Physics from the University Paris VI and a Master in Archeology from University Paris I.

Massimo Serpieri, after working experiences in Italy as a lawyer and in the Ministry of Justice, since 1999 has been working in different services within the European Commission.  He is currently Team Consumer Leader of the Unit Consumers, Local Initiatives and Just Transition in DG Energy.

To contribute to the uptake of ENER policies for a clean and just energy transition, he is involved in designing and implementing legislation and policy measures aimed at protecting and empowering consumers in the gas and electricity markets. This includes legal and analytical work, political dialogue and administrative cooperation with relevant national and local authorities as well as with stakeholders, such as consumer organisations, energy suppliers, businesses, and academia.

Gaël LE BOULCH, Doctor in Management Sciences, Associate Researcher at Paris Dauphine, is in charge of Open Innovation for 24 million customers in the large French Energy Group, EDF. He is both a project manager and an expert in innovation and change management and has created and piloted the first co-innovation platform in France. Since 2002, he has also been teaching Executive and MBA courses in Grandes Ecoles and at Universities in France and abroad.

With successful experiences in Strategy in investment banking (Compagnie Financière de Suez, 3 years), in energy (2 years) and in the management of innovative projects (customer relationship centre, 5 years; Marketing and Innovation Department, 10 years), his areas of expertise are related to Strategy and Innovation: proximity, post-merger integration processes, multicultural management with Africa, territory management, start-ups, entrepreneurship. He is the author of several publications and has participated in various international conferences. He is also a member of various Think Tanks.

Knowledgeable of the energy markets throughout the value chain (generation, distribution grids and retail), mostly in regulation, energy policies, strategic marketing and energy planning

Charlotte Renaud joined Eurelectric, the sector association representing the electricity industry at pan-European level, in 2009 and is currently heading Eurelectric’s Markets & Customers team.  The team is overseeing a wide range of issues from wholesale market integration and design issues to retail market design issues, customer protection and new services proposed by suppliers. She holds a Master Degree in Political Sciences from Sciences Po Lille in France.